Shīchéng yī jiē, dōnglù bāshísān; sānguó yī guǎn, qiānzǎi yī shī. — One street of the poem city, No. 83 on the east road; one hall of the Three Kingdoms, a thousand years of poetry.
The Kuizhou Museum (夔州博物馆, Kuízhōu Bówùguǎn) is the county’s 4A-rated (September 2019) museum — free, at No. 83 Shicheng East Road (诗城东路 83 号), Kuimen Street — and the object-record of the “poem city” itself: the Three Kingdoms material of the Baidi story, the literary record that made Fengjie’s name, and the deep archaeology of the Qutang country. For a county whose scenery is the sale, the museum is the counterweight: the people who wrote the poems and garrisoned the gate.
Fengjie’s epithet — 诗城, the poem city — is earned by volume: the gorge’s writers, from Li Bai to Du Fu to the Bamboo-Branch singers, left a record dense enough to name a city by. The museum assembles that record in objects: the Three Kingdoms material of the Baidi entrustment, the local finds that anchor the Qutang country’s past, and the documentary trail of the poems themselves. The post-reservoir galleries carry the story forward, holding what the new Yangtze level took from the old river towns.
The museum is the county’s rain plan and its first-stop plan — locals bring visiting relatives here before the Baidi cruise, which is the correct order: the objects first, the gate second. Allow two hours; the Three Kingdoms galleries are the spine, and the labels are good.
flowcloud would say that the county’s gate is famous and its poems are the reason — and that the free museum is where the poems keep their receipts.
Practicalities
- Rating: 4A (graded September 2019)
- Tickets: free
- Address: No. 83 Shicheng East Road, Kuimen Street
- Getting there: in-town; a short walk or taxi from the river front (checked October 2026, subject to change)
- Time needed: about 2 hours
Words and Names
夔州 Kuízhōu — Kuizhou, the old name of the county · 诗城 Shīchéng — the poem city, Fengjie’s epithet · 三国 sānguó — the Three Kingdoms, the Baidi story’s era · 夔门街道 Kuímén Jiēdào — Kuimen Street, the museum’s address · 竹枝词 Zhúzhīcí — the Bamboo-Branch songs, the local literary form